A form of addiction treatment called SMART Recovery uses cognitive behavioral therapy and positive thinking to help people beat their drug habit.
Healthcare Systems & Policy
Like so many other American cities, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Woonsocket, Rhode Island has a growing population of unhoused residents.
Also, U.S. returns to pre-pandemic immigration policies, and free tests by mail has been relaunched.
A former mill city of roughly 43,000 people in Rhode Island is a testing ground for a new treatment program designed to bend the rising curve of opioid overdose deaths.
Top government officials are pitching budget increases and a series of potentially transformative policy proposals to curb long psychiatric-related hospitalizations.
When Elizabeth Rodriguez tells her 8-year-old son that she doesn’t have any of his baby pictures, not even one or two, she starts to break down.
Jack Hays has stayed in the hospital for more than a year – including more than 250 days in a windowless room in the emergency department – as he waits for long-term care.
Educational and child care disruptions because of housing instability are growing increasingly common. The disruptions can have immediate and long-term impacts on kids’ mental health, academic success and social lives.
Nebraska’s groundwater is becoming increasingly laced with nitrate. And small towns, cities and rural Nebraskans are getting stuck paying the tab.